"I enjoyed my time with the Dell M101z, but as I often find to
be the case, the M101z stumbles not because it is bad but instead
because there are other products that are slightly better. Still, the
M101z’s fabulous display and great audio does make a case for itself.
For example, students should consider this laptop because it is
pleasurable to use in a lecture hall as in a dorm room. Buyers who
need maximum battery life, however, will need to consider a different
ultraportable."

Years of commuting to work with a coffee in one hand has taught me to handle
those precious cups of caffeinated liquid like a gyroscope if I want to avoid
spills from sharp stops and bumped elbows. Drink holders in cars are similarly
ringed with dried up coffee stains that attest to countless traffic stops... A
colleague named Cameron discovered a fix to the spill-prone design of
the ubiquitous Polystyrene tear tab coffee cup lids (AKA lift lock tab) while
driving around the city for 1-800 Got Junk a few years back...

Now the typical coffee lid
is designed so a small opening tab is ripped from edge and folded back into a pre-molded slot where it locks in place. The resulting square opening allows you to drink the coffee with the lid on, but sloshing coffee still easily spurts out. In stop and start traffic the problem is magnified because the cup opening is parallel with the direction of vehicle movement. Like a Tsunami rolling onto a shallow beach, the forces acting on the fluid are amplified, so coffee easily overflows the drink opening and spills all over the place.

Cameron's observations while driving a truck in city traffic led him to this
fix: tuck the tear tab *into* the coffee cup, thus creating a fluid
dampener which stops the coffee from flowing towards the opening at a
perpendicular angle and sloshing out. The polystyrene tab is naturally held
back against the inside of the paper cup, at about a 45 degree angle, so coffee
can only enter the drink opening from the sides (parallel to the rim of the
cup). The velocity of liquid in the coffee cup is thus reduced to a point where
it will not slosh over during rapid acceleration/deceleration. As liquid
now enters the drink area from two small openings, total flow is not
significantly reduced to make drinking coffee like using a Sippy cup. Got Feedback?